Cringely Gives KnowNow Some Unbelievable Free Press... (fwd)

[Bill Frantz]

At 5:26 PM -0800 1/28/02, Enzo Michelangeli wrote:
>Well, a nice characteristic that RSA doesn't have is the ability of using as
>secret key a hash of the passphrase, which avoids the need of a secret
>keyring and the relative vulnerability to dictionary attacks. See e.g. the
>Pegwit application, which, in its version 9
>(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pegwit/) does not, AFAIK, infringe on any EC
>patent.

DSA shares this nice characteristic since the secret key is a (not quite)
160 bit number.  (Some EC libraries implement DSA-style signatures in
elliptic fields.)

Cheers - Bill


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